Introducing TUoA Pozible Subscription
So, today is the launch of the new TUoA Pozible Subscription - become part of the TUoA community and get some great benefits at the same time
Introducing the next stage of The Usefulness of Art - the bit where you can get involved!
The Usefulness of Art (TUoA) is an intiative that I started with a concert series across 2017-2018 at fortyfivedownstairs. Now, I am broadening the scope of activities beyond just presentation to include mentoring, workshops and consultancy. I have increasing found that my particular range of experiences across different instruments, different genres, different cities, different countries and different artforms has given me some unique perspectives. So rather than just give ad hoc advice here and there, I figure its time to actively offer my services to help others along their way, even if that's by avoiding some of my mistakes!
But, its not just about me - I need you!
Art for me is about finding ways to connect to each other, which leads to better understanding and ultimately creating bonds that bring us together. My experience has shown me that any performance or art experience is a two-way thing between artist and audience, whether seen as interactive or passive - both are necessary for the exchange to occur.
You can be a part in building this TUoA community, whether through getting active in discussions, connecting with others, seeking advice or just helping support the cause and spreading the word!
Why TUoA?
The reason for doing this is to assist our artisitic and broader community. Indeed, TUoA was born out of my response to how our society should be connecting - you can see the background to TUoA below. In my experience, opportunties and and resilience come from strongly connected communities that share.
What's on offer?
Through actively supporting TUoA you will connect to a community of artists and artistic minded people, aware of the intrinsic value of music and the arts. There will be regular opportunities for open and frank discussion around practical issues for those pursuing musical and artistic careers as well as more aesthetic and conceptual ideas.
In addtion, there are a variety of practical benefits such as personal mentoring, invite-only events, free music downloads, , free/discounted concert tickets, exlusive content and personal insghts. In the future, I intend to extend TUoA activities to create funded opportunities for TUoA subscrbers for artists to develop and present new works.
How can I get involved with TUoA?
You've got this far - chances are you ready interested in getting involved, but you can choose to what extent:
Basic (no cost) - if you just want to know more about TUoA and get regular updates then you can simply check out the public TUoA Facebook Pagehere and subscribe to the monthy (roughly) TUoA e-newsletter here.
Subscribe - you can actively support TUoA's development by committing to a monthly donation at a range of levels starting from just the cost of a cup of coffee. Your contribution will go to a mix of directly funding the ongoing rewards on offer as well as supporting me to conduct TUoA activities and events. You might be really interested in a particular reward, you might be keen to be an active contributor or you might just wish to support TUoA's development - in whatever capacity, your support will be equally valued!
And then we'll see together how things develops as the TUoA community grows!!
More info
TUoA website - coming soon: www.tuoa.com.au
TUoA Facebook page (public): www.facebook.com/usefulness.of.art
Adam Simmons personal webpage at: www.adamsimmons.com
Adam Simmons personal facebook: www.facebook.com/fatrainmusic
Fat Rain Music (music label - digital/physical) - fatrain.bandcamp.com